Top 100 Quotes About True Desire
#1. The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away - to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!
Alain De Botton
#2. Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.
Steven Redhead
#3. What takes the place of the strict rules of the Strict Father model is clarity of expectations and empathy. What takes the place of reward and punishment is interdependence, communication, and a true desire to remain affectionately connected to those you live with. F
George Lakoff
#4. Let disappointment do its deep work
remind you that your true desire is found, not in God's ways or God's will or God's blessings, but in God himself.
Emily P. Freeman
#5. Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.
Walton Goggins
#6. Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue
#7. If you surrender your free will, then someone is bound to take the reins and lead you to a place that is not of your own true desire.
Steven Redhead
#8. It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.
Harshada Pathare
#9. A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.
Eric Butterworth
#10. Consider your deepest, most secret desires for one moment. Ask yourself, "Where did this desire come from?" If the thought of fulfilling that desire brings you joy, then this is a clue that it is a true desire and your divine assignment. A
Doreen Virtue
#11. My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.
Bassui Tokusho
#12. It is during our failures that we discover our true desire for success.
Kevin Ngo
#13. I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.
Ilchi Lee
#14. The true desire and secret of existence is to live in peace, love, and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Are you seeking power because that is your true desire, Brennan?
Or because you have a picture in your mind, of the role that you play as an ambitious young man, and you think it is what someone playing your role would do?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#16. You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.
Kathe Koja
#17. True desire in the heart for anything good is God's proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it's yours already,
Denzel Washington
#18. When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.
Stephanie Dray
#19. Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Following the path of love is always your soul's true desire.
James Van Praagh
#21. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
#22. The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Bill Vaughan
#23. It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Hu Shih
#24. To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#26. Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.
Deepak Chopra
#27. Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love.
Danielle LaPorte
#28. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
#29. True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
Alain De Botton
#30. Love is an activity, not a feeling ... True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.
Stephen L. Carter
#31. If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.
Neville Goddard
#32. It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Taylor Swift
#33. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.
Gustave Flaubert
#34. Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations come to life on the page. But it is those who choose to do something about this passion that has been ignited inside of them that are true writers.
Brian A. McBride
#36. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#37. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.
Debasish Mridha
#38. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#39. When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.
Audre Lorde
#40. Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself - it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of what is collected but of collecting.
Susan Sontag
#41. When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.
Shannon A. Thompson
#42. Secret Saturdays ought to be required reading at middle schools everywhere. Maldonado gives us both voice and heart. His young characters navigate a challenging world with endearing earnestness, lively style, and a heartening desire for true friendship and dignity.
E.R. Frank
#43. many things tempt our hearts to put them first and God second. We must root out the desire to worship these things and focus on the true God. The
Richard J. Foster
#44. This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.
Langston Hughes
#45. Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
John Of The Cross
#47. True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend
Faye Hall
#48. I do. I choose you,
which is to choose him and the others and to say
Everything I was ever told of love
was so simple as to be untrue.
Let me see for myself what you desire beside me.
Let me look it in the face and kiss him.
Jameson Fitzpatrick
#49. For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.
Rob Bell
#50. Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies - skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same.
Rachael Wade
#52. I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.
Jami Floyd
#53. True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
Rabia Basri
#54. It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.
Peter Brook
#55. Wherever there is true grace, there is a desire for more grace.
Matthew Henry
#56. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.
Tyler Braun
#57. You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Herbert Read
#58. I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.
I'm cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
Coco J. Ginger
#59. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
Dalai Lama
#60. No, it wasn't quite true that John had no conscience at all. Everyone had one. But there were many voices in his head that had an easier time reaching him: his ambition, his desire for fame and success - and for revenge.
Cornelia Funke
#61. There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.
Lawrence Krauser
#62. Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#63. Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul De Man
#64. The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.
Elaina Marie
#65. Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness.
Dada Bhagwan
#66. That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes
in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender
is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.
Frederick William Robertson
#67. It is true that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends.
It is also true that you can choose your partner and in doing so, you end up choosing the family you've always wanted.
J.R. Rim
#68. We need to make our own miracles, it is a wasted exercise to just wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy and desire to make them come true.
Steven Redhead
#69. The intellect alone has an eye for viewing an essence, which it cannot see except in the true Cause, which is the Fount of all desire. Moreover, since all things seek to exist, then in all things there is desire from the Fount-of-desire, wherein being and desire coincide in the Same.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#70. True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.
Stephen L. Carter
#71. True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we are conscious of His nearness, and that is strange love of Him which is content to pass days without ever setting Him before itself.
Alexander MacLaren
#72. The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#73. In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.
Ayn Rand
#74. What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.
Alan Cohen
#75. One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.
Dalai Lama
#76. To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.
Lawrence Crane
#77. I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.
Adelia Prado
#78. We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.
Theodore Epp
#79. Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.
Tracee Ellis Ross
#80. One of the greatest motivators is desire. If the desire is strong enough you will do whatever it takes to achieve. Just connect your actions with your true desires.
Ralph Marston
#81. When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place ... but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!
Naoyuki Ochiai
#82. God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
Richard Rohr
#83. I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire
Eduardo Galeano
#84. I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I'm still waiting on that one to come true.
Starley Ard
#85. You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.
Frederick Lenz
#86. When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.
Deepak Chopra
#87. Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.
Dalai Lama
#88. A. W. Tozer says, "A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.
Charles R. Swindoll
#89. I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.
Elayne Boosler
#90. It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
T. S. Eliot
#91. Here and there on earth there is probably a kind of continuation of love; in which this greedy desire of two people for each other gives way to a new desire and greed, a shared higher thirst for an ideal above them.
But who knows such love? who has experienced it?
Its true name is friendship
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it.
Idries Shah
#93. All that I desire in life are three ...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee.
Roman Payne
#94. Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.
Shunryu Suzuki
#95. A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#96. What I am saying is, 'Know the science'. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.
Dada Bhagwan
#97. Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
#98. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.
Sanhita Baruah
#99. As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.
Monique Truong
#100. A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.
Lee Hammond
